Cotton ginning and lapping machine



(NOMMBU W. 0. COLEMAN.

Cotton Ginning and Lapping Machine;

No. 242,509. I Patented June 7,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM O. COLEMAN, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

COTTON GiNNlNG AND LAPPING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,509, dated June *7, 1881.

Application filed September 23, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM O. COLEMAN, of Little Rock, in the county of Pulaski and State ofArkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton Ginning and Lapping Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to whichitappertainsto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms apart of this specification.

The figure ot' the drawing is a vertical longitudinal sectional View of the machine.

The invention relates to a combined cotton ginning and lapping machine; and it consists in the improved features of construction and combination hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawing, A designates the saw-shaft, carrying the gin-saws; B, the brush, of any ordinary construction; and m, the flue-chamber leading to the condenser O, for conducting the cottonlint by the air generated by the revolving brush B to the condenser O.

The condenser O is a rotary cylinderof wiregauze or perforated sheet metal. Against the upper portion of the con(lensing-cylinder the draft or current of air is inward, while at the ends and the lower portion of the same the current is outward, caused by the suctionblast from I'an K, arranged inside the casing of the machine in the usual manner, and which also collects and carries ofi'thedust generated in the machine, which is discharged through spout it into any convenient place for its reception. The current of air through the flue m lodges the lint directly upon the condenser (I, where it is held by the pressure of air until the periphery of the condenser has carried it under the roller D, which forms it into a hat by pressure; then the ontwardcurrent ofthe air (No model.)

lifts it from the condenser, and the inclined guide P conducts it to the pressure-rollers E E, and thence between the rollers H and E I, which roll it into laps.

The rollers I) E F and the condenser G are connected bysuitable gearingthat willequalize their speed in order to keep the hat taut.

n designates the breast or feed-hopper, and o designates the gin-ribs between the saws.

By this construction of machine seed-cotton may be converted directly into lap-rolls, and thereby save the expense of baling the cotton. The lap-rolls are much smoother and untangled when made directly from the seedcotton than they'are when madein the ordinary way from baled cotton, and the card will perform nearly, if not quite, double the work from lap-rolls made directly from the seed-cotton.

I am aware that cotton-gins have been provided with condensers, and that lapping-machines are provided with condensers, and I do not broadly claim either of these constructions.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claitn as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination, with the gin-saws, the brush B, and revolving condenser G, of the flue m, for conducting the'lint from the brush and lodging itdireotly upon the upper side of ,the condenser, a suction-tan for creating an ex- Witnesses:

J. E. DlCKSON, OT'ro LEYMER. 

